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• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the November Rule. I recommend these posts for more reading/information on the Rule itself, though I will also be detailing what…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made a bet. I had been telling him about my research interests and my desire to stay…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m doing MISTI-Germany this summer and living in Berlin. MISTI is a really cool program that gives MIT students support to live and work abroad for…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  i. I took thermodynamics last fall, where I realized that a bomb calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I had a problem.…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  I wrote a blog at the end of last summer subtitled “so many different ways to feel lost:” I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before, and…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

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  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  time to 7:30 and arrived at Hollywood Studios at 8:24, 6 minutes before

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  about two hours of practice, and then the '24s were off to ring premiere

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  ] because those are the ones I had finals for last semester 24. Last time you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert mountainsides like trees. I got…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of the ear in…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  rising senior in Course 18 and 24-1, which is math and philosophy. Chat

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  came into mit. waly n '24 wrote about it in his post about emails. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  introduction CJ: Gods, how did this start again? Alan: Are we really doing another conversational-style joint post? CJ: There’s literally no other way we know how to write a joint…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the world works…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  Covering my walls in postcards and various other pieces of paper is my preferred method of decoration. I’ve covered pretty much every wall of my room at home, to the…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  One of the events for the class of 2024’s second round of orientation⁠106 because this is our first time actually being on campus was to write a letter to our…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  If indeed I post this on time, as of February 9th, 2021, I’ll be twenty years old. Wow. So weathered, so wise.  I’m heading back to Boston in a couple…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  parts of it. I was scrambling so fast in the 24 hours before it was due

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  maximum speed of Mach 2.4, reached apogee at 33,280 ft, and was fully

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021